Pattaya : Police to get tough with baht bus drivers
Complaints coming in from the public
Ariyawat Nuamsawat
Pattaya police have been told to get tough with the baht bus drivers who for too long have been stopping wherever they want, whenever they want, and causing ill feeling over unfair prices and impolite behavior.
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Sanit Boonmachai
At a meeting of the Pattaya Administrative and Orderliness Committee at Pattaya City Hall on July 3, committee chairman Sanit Boonmachai said that baht bus drivers and private taxis need more effective policing.
Many complaints are being received from the public regarding undisciplined stopping and parking, blatantly unfair pricing, and general rudeness. The drivers are causing traffic congestion and accidents, and damaging the image of the city, he said.
Pol Lt Col Supachat Piammanat, deputy superintendent at Pattaya Police Station and responsible for traffic affairs said that the police would more closely monitor the drivers of Pattaya City’s 700-plus baht buses.
Driver profiles would be created with photos and telephone numbers, and a system would be implemented to control the routes and times of their departures to the stopping point. Chamlong Sukprom, chairman of the Pattaya Baht Bus Cooperative will be asked to arrange this with his members, said Pol Lt Col Supachat.
Chamlong said that the cooperative has already provided driver profiles and registration but lacks personnel to control the behavior of the drivers. Whenever a complaint is received, the cooperative issues a warning to the driver concerned. More cooperation is required with city hall and the police, he said.
Sanit said that a further meeting would be held to record the progress of these proposals.
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